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The relation between thinking and speaking tends to be thought and theorized in causal terms: speakers express what they have thought or are thinking. That is, speech is theorized as a copy of thought even though thought itself may be theorized in terms of inner speech. The verb ‘to express’ – as a live or dead metaphor – indeed portrays this relation as one in which some content of a container is pressed out. The verb etymologically derives from the Latin ex-, out + pressāre, to press, to squeeze.
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Roth, WM. (2012). Thinking and Speaking. In: Roth, WM. (eds) First-Person Methods. Practice of Research Method, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-831-5_10
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